THE CONTRIBUTION OF USE-WEAR/RESIDUE STUDIES OF OBSIDIAN ARTEFACTS FOR UNDERSTANDING CHANGES IN SETTLEMENT AND

This paper considers how patterns in use-wear/residues relate to debates about the nature of the day-to-day lives of the people who created the Lapita Cultural Complex. Changes in subsistence and settlement patterns have often been proposed as being the result of the introduction of new kinds of agriculture to the Bismarck Archipelago by people using Lapita pottery (Green 2002:95-120; Kirch 1997:45-52; Spriggs 1997:67-106). In contrast, several recent use-wear/residue studies of stone tools in Wes